She actually came to me as a "rescue": she'd been housed for many years (15) with 2 other female rosy boas in an under-heated & under-sized cage in a chilly* museum.Originally Posted by NewmanLovesSnakes
Until she "went on strike" and barely ate anything for a couple years...then they finally noticed how skinny she was & didn't want her...after all, they had the other 2 that
gave them no trouble...until both got sick & died the year after "my" rosy boa moved in with me. As a volunteer, I initially took her home on a temporary basis to see if
I could get her to eat...I had a house-full of snakes & intended to return her but the idea was for me to find out if she was actually ill, or just unhappy with how she was
being kept. It didn't take me long to find out: with me, she ate constantly & regained some weight, but when I let the staff know, they convinced me to just keep her.
Lucky snake to escape the sad fate of the other 2. *It took me quite a while to convince that museum to buy & install UTH heat for their reptiles...all they were using for
heat was over-head lights, & since heat rises, very little heat made it into the cages, much less to the cage floor where the snakes were...& of course, the museum was
very air-conditioned for human comfort. They actually thought it was "normal" for snakes to regurgitate meals...the staff was not much into snakes & made no secret of
that.
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